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Happy Holidays! Hi5! You still have time to become a ‘Layaway Angel’ at your local Kmart store. ‘Layaway Angel’ Picks Up $16K Tab At Costa Mesa Kmart Store « CBS Los Angeles. Contact your community Kmart and ask how you can make someone’s holiday season more enjoyable. Also, view

'Spectrum holidays'Happy Holidays! Whatever your faith, belief-system, religion, denomination, higher-power preference...if you live on the Autism Spectrum, you probably can relate to some aspect of 'Autism Night Before Christmas'.... an awesome perspective that raises Autism A

'winter break fun!'If school is out, Camp Futures is in!Autism Spectrum Therapies offers Winter Break camps in our Santa Ana, San Diego, and Culver City clinics. Children ages 3 to 18 will participate in a variety of exciting and fun activ

Introducing Randazzo's interactive King Cake app, King Me. Order king cakes on Facebook, or use your smart phone or tablet.

The new Randazzo’s app allows users to shop for special order king cakes as well as design custom king cakes by selecting from a variety of fillings, icing and sprinkles to create a truly unique and delicious treat. Another fun feature of the app is the option to create a ‘virtual king cake’ comple...

ASAN will present the video with Closed-Captioning features in a few weeks. Be sure to check on our EH5A social networks for a link.

Along with discussing Inclusionary methods for Research, Self-Advocates emphasized the need for individuals on the Autism Spectrum to be included in federal grantmaking.The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network seeks your input...

The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) is a non-profit organization run by and for autistic people. ASAN's supporters include autistic adults and youth, those with other distinct neurological types and neurotypical family members, professionals, educators and friends. ASAN was created to provide support and services to individuals on the autism spectrum while working to change public perception... and combat misinformation by educating communities about persons on the autism spectrum. Our activities include public policy advocacy, community engagement to encourage inclusion and respect for neurodiversity, quality of life oriented research and the development of autistic cultural activities and other opportunities for autistic people to engage with others on the spectrum.ASAN initiatives include the Academic Autistic Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education (AASPIRE), an active Speaker's Bureau and advocacy in support of autism and disability-related issues such as de-institutionalization and community living supports, educational opportunity and inclusion, employment supports and other initiatives at both state and federal levels.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

'Is Autism Research Ethical? Legal? any Social Implications?'
Have you considered participating in Autism research?
Have you participated in Autism research?
Did you consider the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Autism Research?

Are you considering conducting research on Autism?Have you conducted research on Autism?
Did you consider the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Autism Research?

What Problems do you think exist with conducting Autism Research?
What Solutions have proven beneficial in Autism Research?

Were your questions, concerns and comments considered during Autism Research?
Did the Researchers or methodology of the Autism research consider the impacts on your personal, religious, financial, disability, and cultural views?

Did you receive compensation for participating in Autism Research?
Was your Autism Research adequately funded?

Based on previous experiences...
Would you participate in other types of Autism Research?
Do you consider Autism Research relevant, reliable and resourceful?

Consider participating in the ASAN Symposium on Ethics, Legal and Social Implications of Autism Research conducted by The Autistic Self Advocacy Network, in conjunction with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, the Harvard Law Project on Disability and the UNESCO Bioethics Chair American Unit.

Purpose: By including equal numbers of self-advocate and researcher participants, we hope this will serve as a starting point for meaningful dialogue between those conducting research on autism and the community of Autistic adults and youth.When: December 10, 2011 from 9 AM to 3 PMWhere: Harvard Law School Campus, Hauser Hall, Room 105,1563 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138Cost: a free event - space is limited - RSVPTopics: will include Prenatal Testing, Community Participation in Research Methodologies, Appropriate and Inappropriate Intervention Goals and much more.Contact: Ari Ne'eman - Autistic Self Advocacy Network 202.596.1056 info@autisticadvocacy.org

Click here if you are Unable to attend to leave your Comments and give a donation to ASAN.

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is excited to be taking this first step to creating a collaborative climate with autism researchers. Please consider supporting ASAN's initiatives to advance a quality of life oriented research agenda and to call attention to critical ethical, legal and social concerns in autism research, such as prenatal testing, the setting of appropriate and inappropriate intervention goals, balancing safety and self-determination and much more. $10.00 $25.00 $50.00 $100.00 $250.00

IAN Project - Interactive Autism NetworkThe Interactive Autism Network (IAN), is an innovative online project bringing together tens of thousands of people affected by autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and hundreds of researchers in a search for answers.

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